Journal #2

"After a while she got up from where she was and went over the little garden field entire. She was seeking confirmation of the voice and vision, and everywhere she found and acknowledged answers. A personal answer for all other creations except herself. She felt an answer seeking her, but where? When? How? She found herself at the kitchen door and stumbled inside. In the air of the room were flies tumbling and singing, marrying and giving in marriage. When she reached the narrow hallway she was reminded that her grandmother was home with a sick headache. She was lying across the bed asleep so Janie tipped on out of the front door. Oh to be a pear tree--any tree in bloom! she was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. Where were the singing bees for her. Nothing on the place nor in her grandma's house answered her. She searched as much of the world as she could from the top of the front steps and then went on down to the front gate and leaned over to gaze up and down the road. Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made.". - page 11

1. uses a tree to symbolize Janie in a blooming state of age.
2. repeats the grandmothers house
3. why does Janie wasnt to struggle with life?
4. symbolizing bee's with birds because bee's do not sing
5. road is a symbol of the road in Janie's life.
6. why does she not just say entire garden? instead of saying garden field entire.
7. Zora is vague with "the voice".
8. Grandmothers house is a symbol of a resting place. As Janie can find her answer.
9. Marriage is a symbol of unwantedness.
10. personifies the grandmother as a higher power to show ownership in this passage.
11. why not say sick with a headache? than say sick headahce?
12.the glossy leaves personify her skin tone
13. vague as to what was Janie's question?